Amanda Blackhall and colleagues show how one university has enlisted the help of clients to challenge misconceptions about mental illness
A preliminary study suggests that service users’ involvement in mental health nurse education can dispel students’ preconceptions and help them to develop more positive, but realistic, attitudes and empathy towards people with mental illness. Such involvement is valued by students, service users and staff. Service users’ involvement in the classroom was influential in contributing to positive attitudes to mental illness. Recommendations include measuring the impact of service user involvement in the classroom on clinical practice, and introducing client participation in pre- and post-registration education more widely.
Mental Health Practice. 16, 1, 23-26. doi: 10.7748/mhp2012.09.16.1.23.c9280
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